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Soviet Foreign Policy Studies and Foreign Policy Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

William Welch
Affiliation:
University of Colorado
Jan F. Triska
Affiliation:
Stanford University
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American academic literature on foreign policy witnessed, in the 1960's, a continuing flow of studies of the Soviet case, as indeed of other cases. It also witnessed a flow of studies of another, newer, and broader type—studies of theoretical bent concerned with the construction of general analytical models of foreign policy behavior.

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Review Articles
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1971

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References

1 Hammond, Notably Thomas T., ed., Soviet Foreign Relations and World Communism (Princeton 1965)Google Scholar, and the bibliographic sections of Foreign Affairs.

2 Among these few are: as already noted, Triska, Jan F. and Finley, David D., Soviet Foreign Policy (New York 1968)Google Scholar; Warth, Robert D., Soviet Russia in World Politics (New York 1963)Google Scholar; and a number of other volumes on the Cold War.

3 For exemplary works of narrower focus, see Dallin, Alexander, The Soviet Union at the United Nations (New York 1962)Google Scholar; Triska, Jan F. and Slusser, Robert, The Theory, Law, and Policy of Soviet Treaties (Stanford 1962)Google Scholar; Dinerstein, Herbert, War and the Soviet Union, rev. ed. (New York 1962)Google Scholar; Garthoff, Raymond, Soviet Strategy in the Nuclear Age, rev. ed. (New York 1962)Google Scholar; and Wolfe, Thomas, Soviet Strategy at the Crossroads (Cambridge, Mass. 1964)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. See also bibliography in Triska and Finley (fn. 2), esp. 449–73.

4 For exemplary articles see Dallin, Alexander, ed., Soviet Conduct in World Affairs (New York 1960)Google Scholar; Lederer, Ivo, Russian Foreign Policy (New Haven, 1962)Google Scholar; Philip Mosely, The Soviet Union 1922–62: A Foreign Affairs Reader (New York 1963).

5 For exemplary shorter pieces, see useful prefatory comments in Rubinstein, Alvin, The Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union, 2d ed. (New York 1966)Google Scholar; and Eudin, Xenia and Slusser, Robert, Soviet Foreign Policy 1928–1934, 2 vols. (University Park, Pa. 1966)Google Scholar; also Herbert Dinerstein's monograph, Fifty Years of Soviet Foreign Policy (Baltimore 1968).

6 Wolfe, Bertram, Communist Totalitarianism (Boston 1961), 76, 252Google Scholar.

7 Ibid., 252–331.

8 Ibid., 30, 31.

9 Schuman, Frederick L., The Cold War: Retrospect and Prospect, 2d ed. (Baton Rouge 1967), 12, 24–25Google Scholar.

10 Ibid., 28–29.

11 Ibid., 15–22.

12 Ibid., 25, 79–80.

13 Ibid., 25.

14 Shulman, Marshall D., Stalin's Foreign Policy Reappraised (Cambridge, Mass. 1963), passimCrossRefGoogle Scholar.

15 For definitions see ibid., 4–5.

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19 Ibid., chaps. 20–21.

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21 Strausz-Hupe, Robert and others, Protracted Conflict (New York 1963), chap. 4Google Scholar.

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23 Paige, Glen D., The Korean Decision (New York 1967)Google Scholar.

24 Modelski, George, A Theory of Foreign Policy (New York 1962)Google Scholar.

25 Harold, and Sprout, Margaret, “Environmental Factors in the Study of International Politics,” in Rosenau, James N., ed., International Politics and Foreign Policy (New York 1961)Google Scholar.

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27 Rosenau, James N., “Pre-Theories and Theories of Foreign Policy,” in Farrell, R. Barry, ed., Approaches to Comparative and International Politics (Evanston 1966)Google Scholar.

28 Rosenau, James N., “Comparative Foreign Policy: Fad, Fantasy, or Field?,” International Studies Quarterly, xii (September 1968)Google Scholar; see also his Calculated Control as a Unifying Concept in the Study of International Politics and Foreign Policy, Center of International Studies Research Monograph No. 15 (Princeton 1963), and the excellent article by Hanrieder, Wolfram F., “Compatibility and Consensus: A Proposal for the Conceptual Linkage of External and Internal Dimensions of Foreign Policy,” The American Political Science Review, lxi (December 1967), 971–82CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

29 Jacobson, Harold Karan and Zimmerman, William, eds., The Shaping of Foreign Policy (New York 1969)Google Scholar.

30 “The scheme used here is related to the one [Rosenau] developed but differs in that it includes as a separate category environmental factors (e.g., geography, level of technology, rate of scientific innovation), and it does not include role variables as a separate category (they are included instead within the governmental category).” Ibid., 17.

31 Brecher, Michael, Steinberg, Blema, and Stein, Janice, “A Framework for Research on Foreign Policy Behavior,” Journal of Conflict Resolution, xiii (March 1969), 75101CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

32 Allison, Graham T., “Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” The American Political Science Review, lxiii (September 1969), 689718CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

33 Horelick, Arnold and Rush, Myron, Strategic Power and Soviet Foreign Policy (Chicago 1965)Google Scholar, based on Horelick, A., “The Cuban Missile Crisis: An Analysis of Soviet Calculations and Behavior,” World Politics, xvi (April 1964)Google Scholar; Morgenthau, Hans, Politics Among Nations, 3rd ed. (New York 1960)Google Scholar; Stanley Hoffmann, “Restraints and Choices in American Foreign Policy,”Daedalus (Fall 1962), reprinted in The State of War (New York 1965); Schelling, Thomas, The Strategy of Conflict (New York 1960)Google Scholar.

34 “For example, Model I lends itself to mathematical formulation along the lines of Herbert Simon's ‘Behavioral Theory of Rationality,’” Models of Man (New York 1957).

35 For an article invoking models see, for instance, Welsh, William A., “A Game-Theoretic Conceptualization of the Hungarian Revolt: Toward an Inductive Theory of Games,” in Fleron, Frederic J. Jr., ed., Communist Studies and the Social Sciences (Chicago 1969)Google Scholar.